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Rare star 35 EP

HR 5836

RA 235.9803° · Dec -60.2872° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
35 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Supergiant +18
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Star +3
Total score 35

15 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8
  • Supergiant · +18

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G0Ib — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is a supergiant, hundreds of times wider than the Sun.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 6.5 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Norma.
  • Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around May — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 27.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
-1.95
bv
1.02
constellation
Nor
dist ly
1568.0576
luminosity
524.8075
mag
6.46
name
HR 5836
spect
G0Ib

About HR 5836

HR 5836 is a rare star. It lies about 1,568.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Nor, shines at apparent magnitude 6.46 and has spectral type G0Ib.

Its spectrum reads G0Ib — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for HR 5836 in the constellation Nor. At apparent magnitude 6.46, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HR 5836 is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.

Why HR 5836 is a rare star

HR 5836 scores 35 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 15 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Sun-like G-type star and Supergiant — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.